Win $1000 in the 2012 Eco-Comedy Video Competition! The contest is open to anyone who prepares a short, funny video for YouTube, which communicates a clear message about clean energy and/or green jobs. Submissions must: Be humorous! Address the issue of clean energy and/or green jobs Reach a broad audience beyond just environmentalists. Be an…
Psst. Hey you. How about a sweet little permaculture music video to start your day? A permaculture video with a catchy tune, an important lesson, and a ukelele, no less. No Such Thing As Waste, a permaculture principle song by yardboidoroony. Filmed & Edited by Wee Earthlings. Animations by OzJThomas.
Please take five minutes and watch this presentation by psychologist Philip Zimbardo on “The Demise of Guys”, and tell me what you think. “Boys’ brains are being digitally rewired in a totally new way for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they’re totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static,…
On Tuesday, August 9th, we will have a great opportunity to spark some conversations with friends, family, and community members about food and our relationship to it in our modern culture. The Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc. will be rebroadcast on PBS, and due to the pervasiveness of TV in our lives, the opportunity is as…
“Every day, millions of Americans suffer from the toll of toxic air in the form of asthma attacks, heart attacks, strokes and even premature death. Right now, some in Congress and special interests are trying to stop the cleanup of toxic mercury air pollution; they are encouraging the EPA to ignore scientific evidence that smog…
How important is play for the health of our children? Take a couple of minutes and watch this video about the necessity of play in the lives of our children, straight from the physician’s mouth:
Stonyfield Farm has just launched a year-long “Just Eat Organic!” organic education campaign, with two efforts designed to get people talking about organic: Just Eat Organic, a music video by Stonyfield President & CE-Yo Gary Hirshberg, and Organic Moment, a space on the web for people to share personal stories about what organic means to…
“Dirty energy companies and corporate polluters put millions of tons of mercury, arsenic, lead and heavy metals in the air each year, ramping up the risk of childhood asthma, lung infections and other diseases.” The Clean Air Act has kept millions of tons of toxic chemicals out of the air so far:
“At Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, twice per month, 400 children experience cross-disciplinary learning in the garden. It’s school under sky.” The Lunch Love Community Project is an open space documentary project by Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou, produced by 30 Leaves Production, Citizen Film and Media Working Group.
A great video about what we really need to do in this world. With Melissa Etheridge and Salman Ahmad for Search for Common Ground, a non-profit organization that works to transform the way the world deals with conflict. Find out more about the organization at www.takepart.com/sfcg. And a special holiday shout-out to the friend who sent…
Plants, animals, even entire ecosystems are disappearing from the Earth. So what? What does that have to do with us? We’ve got everything we need, so what’s the big deal? The video What Is Nature Worth offers a 3-minute vision into what we’re really losing with the loss of biodiversity on our planet, Spaceship Earth.
I received this huge envelope of junk from Michael Brune, of the Sierra Club. And it kind of hacked me off. So I made a video about it. I should have called it ‘Save the Homeless Pandas’. Yes, it’s a bit snarky. But no less true for it.
Thought you might enjoy this Movember video, covering a month of moustaches in a minute and a half:
Daily Movember video, featuring moustache #16, talking about prostate cancer and prostate health. Here’s my Movember page: Team Soul Patch
Another daily Movember video, featuring moustache #15 and talking about colon and rectal cancer risks. Consider donating for men’s health at my Movember page.
